The poor people living in the land of Israel were being denied legal justice.1 In many societies around the world, those who are rich are able to influence courts of law and prevent themselves from being imprisoned. The rulers and judges in Israel were doing the same; they were not judging uprightly among men (see Psalm 58:1–11).
7 those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same girl, so that my holy name is profaned;